“It’s really personal to me,” Adams says. “I don’t have an agenda. What’s kept me going and why I’ve done this for thirty-six years is because I’m still exploring the place I grew up in. It’s not a documentary political statement.”

“These people are worthy of being seen and not as a caricature,” he says, and the eighty honest images in salt & truth prove it.

We hope you get to see all of the images for yourself, but in case you can't make it to Louisville, we wanted to share a few of our favorites with you: